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hip-79938
Its story
In the sprawling Scorpius shines an orange giant some 1063 light-years away. Its light set off around the year 963, when Persian astronomers such as Al-Sufi were carefully cataloguing the stars of the Arab sky. Cooler and more voluminous than the Sun, its warm glow fades slowly among the dust-laden nebulosities that paint this stretch of the Milky Way.
- Constellation
- Scorpius
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.97
- Distance
- 1062.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 244.752° · Dec -14.873°
- Catalogue
- HIP 79938 · HD 146850
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